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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perforate.

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Examples

  • So it's no surprise that his metal and stone creations often include written words, albeit encrypted -- as in the encoded text that perforates the graceful copper panels of "Antipodes," outside the Hirshhorn Museum, as well as "Kryptos," at the CIA headquarters in Langley.

    Sculptor Jim Sanborn gets wealth of ideas from the likes of 'Wealth of Nations' 2010

  • In Lugulu, Brain found mzuanda was the "one who perforates [perhaps sews?] the womb."

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • With cruel cunning and ingenuity surpassed only by man, this depraved and unprincipled insect perforates the struggling caterpillar, and deposits her eggs in the living, writhing body of her victim.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • With cruel cunning and ingenuity surpassed only by man, this depraved and unprincipled insect perforates the struggling caterpillar, and deposits her eggs in the living, writhing body of her victim.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • With cruel cunning and ingenuity surpassed only by man, this depraved and unprincipled insect perforates the struggling caterpillar, and deposits her eggs in the living, writhing body of her victim.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Gucci perforates its name along the sides of its sneakers ($475; neimanmarcus. com).

    Putting A Shine In Your Step 2008

  • Now, when a young man perforates his lingam he should pierce it with a sharp instrument, and then stand in water so long as the blood continues to flow.

    The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 2006

  • He is a Marine, so it is understandable that he thinks in terms of war when someone knocks down our buildings and perforates his headquarters.

    Terrorism and Islam and Our Response 2006

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